F3The relevant authority shall grant an annual payment to young farmers who are entitled to a payment under the basic payment scheme or the single area payment scheme referred to in Chapter 1 ("payment for young farmers").

Young farmers applying for the payment under this Article must also meet any objective and non-discriminatory requirements specified by the relevant authority prior to exit day regarding appropriate skills and/or training requirements.

Without prejudice to the application of financial discipline, of reduction of payments in accordance with Article 11 and of linear reductions in accordance with Article 7 of this Regulation, and to the application of Article 63 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, the payment for young farmers shall be granted annually upon activation of payment entitlements by the farmer F5....

The payment for young farmers shall be granted per farmer for a period of five years, starting from the first submission of the application for the payment for young farmers provided that that submission takes place within the five years following the setting up referred to in point (a) of paragraph 2. That period of five years shall also apply for farmers who have received payment for young farmers in respect of claims before claim year 2018.

By way of derogation from the second sentence of the first subparagraph, F6the relevant authority may decide that, for those young farmers who set up in accordance with point (a) of paragraph 2 in the period 2010-2013, the five-year period is to be reduced by the number of years which have elapsed between the setting up referred to in point (a) of paragraph 2 and the first submission of the application for the payment for young farmers.

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By way of derogation from F13paragraph 6 of this Article, F14where the legislation applying in the constituent nation so provides, the relevant authority shall calculate each year the amount of the payment for young farmers by multiplying a figure corresponding to a value between 25 % and 50 % of the F15... average payment per hectare F16in the constituent nation by the number of entitlements that the farmer has activated in accordance with Article 32(1) F17....

The F18... average payment per hectare F19in the constituent nation shall be calculated by dividing F20the relevant authority’s share of the national ceiling for the calendar year 2019 F21... by the number of eligible hectares declared F22in the constituent nation in 2015 in accordance with Article 33(1) F23....

F24The maximum limit applicable to the number of payment entitlements activated by the farmer or to the number of eligible hectares declared by the farmer F25is the single maximum limit set by the relevant authority prior to exit day. That limit shall not be below 25 or above 90. F26The relevant authority shall respect that limit when applying paragraphs F276 and 8.

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Paragraphs 3, 6 and 9 only apply where the decisions to which they refer were taken and notified to the Commission by 31 January 2015.

In order to guarantee the protection of the rights of beneficiaries and to avoid discrimination among them, the F29appropriate authority may make regulations concerning the conditions under which a legal person may be considered to be eligible to receive the payment for young farmers.

In order to finance the payment for young farmers, the relevant authority shall use a percentage, which shall not be higher than 2% of its share of the annual national ceiling.

Where the relevant authority decided to revise the estimated percentage and this decision was notified to the Commission by 1 August 2019, that revised percentage will have effect for calendar year 2020.

Without prejudice to the maximum of 2 % laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article, where the total amount of the payment for young farmers applied for in a F31constituent nation in a particular year exceeds the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 1, and where that amount is lower than 2% of the relevant authority’s share of the national ceiling, the relevant authority shall finance the difference by applying point (f) of the first subparagraph of Article 30(7) in the relevant year, by applying a linear reduction to all payments to be granted to all farmers in accordance with Article 32 F36, or by both meansF32... .

Where the total amount of the payment for young farmers applied for in a F33constituent nation in a particular year exceeds the F34amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 1, and where that amount is equal to 2% of its share of the annual national ceiling, the relevant authority shall apply a linear reduction to the amounts to be paid pursuant to Article 50 in order to comply with that ceiling.

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